Welcome to Ho Chi Minh, or Saigon, as its previously known and is still referred to by most locals and tourists. I don't really want to blog about this place, I assume most of you know, the first night we arrived, I got mugged. Not really something I want to relive or write about. I'm sure you wanted the deet's but I have wrote police report after insurance report and completed so many dam forms outlining what happened that I just don't want to do it again. It definitely ruined my time in Saigon, I didn't go out any of the evenings and got taxis everywhere if I did go out. Horrible experience and left me quite shaken.

The only thing worth writing about was our visit to the Chu Chi tunnels. The Chu Chi town is in the South of Vietnam. It's a famous area where the Americans were trying to raid during the war. The town lived underground in hiding tunnels that were three levels below ground level and could only come out at night on the occasions that they weren't being bombed. We watched a video explaining how they lived and showed real footage from under the tunnels and the air raid attacks. It was really interesting having the history explained to us. Then we could try what they ate, we tried the potato fruit thing - yukky. We were shown the different weapons and traps they used - brutal. We had the chance of going down into the tunnels. We went down to the second level and it was small enough, a good struggle through, on my hands and knees, my backpack was touching the roof too. I couldn't go any lower, I didn't need to be in the closed dark space any longer. Unbelievable that people lived under there for so long, 10 years in some cases. The girls visited the war museum in Saigon city centre but I couldn't go because I was trying to deal with the insurance people that afternoon. It's shame because I wanted to go but the girls said it was quite a difficult place to visit, hard to read all the stories and seeing the photographs. They had a very low key day afterwards.

We also visited a few markets in Saigon, put our bartering to the test again and spent a good few hours there on separate occasions. We went to a shopping centre in search of a h&m because we heard rumours there was one but only came across a Topshop. As much as it felt like home, we couldn't afford anything so we just went round touching all the clothes, practically dribbling. I miss shopping so much, that's one of the things I'm looking forward to doing when I'm home. Yes with you Miss Katy Dooley.

We found our final Ganesh Indian restaurant down our coastal journey of Vietnam, and I think we all agreed it was the best one out the lot. We all acted liked vultures at the restaurant though, spooning the sauces, yamming down the popadoms and hardly speaking when our mains arrived. We got the taxi home afterwards and just laid in bed. Liv has downloaded the first series of breaking bad so were making our way through those at the mo, it's pretty good but I've still got one series of The Wire left to watch. I just can't afford to download it yet.

After 5 days in Saigon, I was ready to leave. We're so glad we travelled the whole of Vietnam with Christa and Nelen, our gorgeous additions, but we only have a bit of time left before we go our separate ways now. It was also lovely to meet up with loads of other friends along the way; Tom, our fellow LOCOG'er, our great Thailand buddies, some of our Sapa crew and to top it off, I met up with my mates from home, Steph and Marcus!! Hoi An was definitely my favourite place, but I loved our trek in Sapa and Nha Trang was fun for a little party time. Not bad for a month in Vietnam.

Seventh country done, onto the next, Cambodia.